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Computer tomography (CT) has produced such enormous progress in the clinical field that its realization has been compared to X-ray discovery. It is impossible to summarize here all the clinical applications of CT. But we can state, from a very schematic viewpoint, that up to now the clinical evolution of CT has followed three main, different ways: Morphology, Densitometry, Dynamics.
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Di Guglielmo, L., Villa, A., Biazzi, L. (1987). Clinical Application of X-Ray CT: Results, Limitations and Future Needs. In: Guzzardi, R. (eds) Physics and Engineering of Medical Imaging. NATO ASI Series, vol 119. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3537-2_14
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